Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
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#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela
In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremel...
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Hi! I'm a book historian working on what I call the reading spaces model for my dissertation. I'm developing it by focusing on 18th New Spain #EarlyModern #BookHistory Here's a fun post on archival research related to signatures. I also work at an #STS centre on #CitizenScience & #ResearchIntegrity
Wjy is it so cold?
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wjy is it so cold?
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
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opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Context is *everything*. The inventory of this woman lists 87 books, which sounds like a lot, but if we look at the whole inventory we found there were also 132 visual & tactile objects of knowledge. The books were valued at 2% of the total, while the latter were valued at 27%. #BookHistory
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Context is *everything*. The inventory of this woman lists 87 books, which sounds like a lot, but if we look at the whole inventory we found there were also 132 visual & tactile objects of knowledge. The books were valued at 2% of the total, while the latter were valued at 27%. #BookHistory
Text extruding machines, cannot replace most human work. But managers do not care about the trades, they're only focused on profit & cutting costs. We have seen how customer service has been degraded to a living hell thanks to chatbots & FAQs. The danger lies w the stupid ppl at the top. #ResistAI
I wish more reporting on this made the point that novelists won't be displaced by LLMs suddenly producing literature instead of story mulch, but because decision makers focused only on the bottom line, who don't understand what makes a good book, will be persuaded story mulch has got 'good enough'.
New research by @mctd.bsky.social shows the impact of generative AI on authors in the UK. They found over a third of novelists report their income has already been negatively impacted by AI and 85% expect their future income will be negatively impacted.
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Text extruding machines, cannot replace most human work. But managers do not care about the trades, they're only focused on profit & cutting costs. We have seen how customer service has been degraded to a living hell thanks to chatbots & FAQs. The danger lies w the stupid ppl at the top. #ResistAI
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
#WhatIAmReading two zines from @tangledwilderness.bsky.social: Baba Yaga burns Paris to the Ground by Wren Awry and Like Mushrooms after a Rain, the Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok.
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
#WhatIAmReading two zines from @tangledwilderness.bsky.social: Baba Yaga burns Paris to the Ground by Wren Awry and Like Mushrooms after a Rain, the Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok.
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The lack of self reflection from Radboud's admin is astounding. One hopes those responsible for calling the police would suffer consequences, but they will prolly be promoted 🫠
www.voxweb.nl/en/student-b...
www.voxweb.nl/en/student-b...
Student bitten by police dog tells their story: 'My leg is permanently disfigured' - Vox magazine
During the police intervention on campus on May 7, a student was bitten in their left leg by a police dog. In September the student returned to campus with mixed emotions. 'I’m lucky I didn’t lose my ...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The lack of self reflection from Radboud's admin is astounding. One hopes those responsible for calling the police would suffer consequences, but they will prolly be promoted 🫠
www.voxweb.nl/en/student-b...
www.voxweb.nl/en/student-b...
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There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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VOORLICHTING OP 20 NOVEMBER 2025
18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij.
Meer over Boekwetenschap:
edu.nl/uurx4
18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij.
Meer over Boekwetenschap:
edu.nl/uurx4
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
VOORLICHTING OP 20 NOVEMBER 2025
18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij.
Meer over Boekwetenschap:
edu.nl/uurx4
18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij.
Meer over Boekwetenschap:
edu.nl/uurx4
Wow, they analysed 2 centuries of scholarly work based on a test not suitable and produced an article of 5 paragraphs. What could possibly be wrong?
No author so this could have been written by a bot, but…
judging the "readability" of 347K PhD abstracts written btw 1812 and 2023 based on Flesch test which measures word and sentence length & targets 4th grade is ridiculous and a collosal waste of time.
Free link: archive.ph/2024.12.21-0...
judging the "readability" of 347K PhD abstracts written btw 1812 and 2023 based on Flesch test which measures word and sentence length & targets 4th grade is ridiculous and a collosal waste of time.
Free link: archive.ph/2024.12.21-0...
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
www.economist.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Wow, they analysed 2 centuries of scholarly work based on a test not suitable and produced an article of 5 paragraphs. What could possibly be wrong?
"the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where “health and money collide,” flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear." Excellent article.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where “health and money collide,” flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear." Excellent article.
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🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
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#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
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#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
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The idea that just because you can make it make sense means it's a valid interpretation of a series of facts, utterances, data points, is exactly why we have methods. Because cognition is powerful enough to spin any story, without constraints, one can infer anything from anything if they want to.
If you're an intelligent person you can always find a way to interpret something however you want, e.g. you can say AI is good & zoom in on facts & figures that seem to make that case. But that's not a good way to analyse & why methods exist. We can use astrology like reasoning to get to any result.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The idea that just because you can make it make sense means it's a valid interpretation of a series of facts, utterances, data points, is exactly why we have methods. Because cognition is powerful enough to spin any story, without constraints, one can infer anything from anything if they want to.
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In a clearly anticonstituional move, the University of Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have just cancelled a series of lectures titled „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ after pressure from righ-wing groups. Germany prides itself on academic freedon, till it comes to Palestine.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In a clearly anticonstituional move, the University of Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have just cancelled a series of lectures titled „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ after pressure from righ-wing groups. Germany prides itself on academic freedon, till it comes to Palestine.
Noooooooooooooooooooo
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Noooooooooooooooooooo
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Onder het mom van antisemitisme bestrijding de rabiaat anti-Palestijnse Alan “Palestina heeft geen bestaansrecht” Dershowitz uitnodigen is … een keuze. www.ncab.nl/actueel/nieu...
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Onder het mom van antisemitisme bestrijding de rabiaat anti-Palestijnse Alan “Palestina heeft geen bestaansrecht” Dershowitz uitnodigen is … een keuze. www.ncab.nl/actueel/nieu...
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
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Right beloveds we had so little uptake of this that I’ve extended the deadline indefinitely — if you’re someone who loves sales and marketing and wants to work for my small but mighty disabled-majority social enterprise, please apply!
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Right beloveds we had so little uptake of this that I’ve extended the deadline indefinitely — if you’re someone who loves sales and marketing and wants to work for my small but mighty disabled-majority social enterprise, please apply!
Put it in bold impact font: ONLY HUMAN CONDITION CAN SORT THE APPROPRIATENESS (or we could say quality, suitability) OF THE DATA.
-- human cognition --
-- human cognition --
Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not.
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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
www.ru.nl
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Put it in bold impact font: ONLY HUMAN CONDITION CAN SORT THE APPROPRIATENESS (or we could say quality, suitability) OF THE DATA.
-- human cognition --
-- human cognition --
#SOSpalaeography Vrijo? Brijo? un tipo de cubeta?
![Handwritten text in Spanish: P un [vrijo] de dos azes antiguo con los quatro tiempos del año](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6iupuzvk2ilkaecemzypj2bd/bafkreic2zde334yh4j5crvtgjrywowpkbwk2owbmzqtrq6jmkutfk7prv4@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#SOSpalaeography Vrijo? Brijo? un tipo de cubeta?